Who deserves to be Worshiped ?

5. PROOFS THAT ONLY ALLAH DESERVES TO BE
WORSHIPPED
Here is an obvious fact: Allah is the sole Creator and Sustainer of everything. This
makes Him the only one deserving of our worship. It’s really that simple.
Supplication, for example, is an act of worship, where individuals direct their hearts
to Allah and specify to Him their needs. Allah has instructed us to call upon Him:
{And your Lord says: Call upon Me; I will respond to you…} (Quran 40: 60)
The question then arises: Why do people direct their worship to created objects
such as idols? The fact is that the idols have no power of their own; anything which
results from that act of worship only comes about through the permission of Allah.
When a person prays to an idol and his or her prayers are answered, it is not the idol
which actually answers the prayers, but Allah. Similarly, prayers to Jesus Christ
(pbuh), Buddha, Krishna, Saint Christopher, Saint Jude or Prophet Muhammad
(bpuh) are not answered by them; they are answered by Allah. Consequently, prayer
directed to anyone or anything other than Allah is of no avail, and the same applies
to all other acts of worship, including charity and fasting. They must all be directed
to Allah alone.
The prophets were very explicit in their teachings that only Allah should be
worshipped, and they were sent to teach this very message. They claimed neither
fame nor status, and never once did they instruct the people to direct acts of worship
to them; on the contrary, they warned their people against doing just that. For
example, Islam teaches that Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was a human being who was
created by Allah in a miraculous way. He was born of a mother, Mary, without a
father. He himself was neither God (Allah) nor the son of God, and he worshipped
Allah. He was not one of three manifestations of God, as Christians claim; nor was
he the son of a prostitute, as some Jews have alleged. He told his people (the tribes
of Israel) to worship Allah alone—not to worship either himself or his mother.
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